Lesson 2

The purpose of this Number Talk is to elicit strategies and understandings students have for related expressions where an addend is 1 more than in the previous expression. These understandings help students develop fluency and will be helpful later in this lesson when students add within 10. When students notice how adding 1 to an addend increases the sum by 1 they are noticing a pattern and making use of structure (MP7).

• Display one expression.
• “Give me a signal when you have an answer and can explain how you got it.”
• 1 minute: quiet think time

• Record answers and strategy.
• Keep expressions and work displayed.
• Repeat with each expression.

• “How is the second expression the same as the first expression? How is it different?” (The first addend is 5, but the second addend adds 1.)
• “How is the sum of the second expression different?” (The sum is 1 more than the first.)

The purpose of this activity is for students to write equations that match the story problems. The story problems are written with all three quantities revealed so students can focus on making sense of the problem, determine the operation, and write a matching equation. When students connect the quantities in a story problem to an equation, they reason abstractly and quantitatively (MP2).

• Groups of 2
• Give students access to 10-frames and connecting cubes or two-color counters. 
• Display images of libraries, including any taken of your school or community library.
• “What are some things you can do in a library?”
• 30 seconds: quiet think time
• 1 minutes: partner discussion
• Share and record responses.
• “We are going to work with more stories about the library today.”

• “Listen to each story and write an equation to match.”
• Read each problem aloud. 
• 3 minutes: independent work time
• “Share your equations with your partner. Be sure to discuss how each equation matches the story.”
• 3 minutes: partner discussion

If students write an equation with an operation that does not match the story, consider asking:

• "How did you decide whether to write an addition or subtraction equation?"
• “How can you act out this story with connecting cubes? What equation matches what you did with the cubes?"

• Display the equation that matches the first story problem.
• “How does this equation match the story?”
• Repeat for each problem as time allows. 
• Explain that none of the numbers in these equations have a box around them because there was no question to answer in these stories. 

The purpose of this activity is for students to solve and write equations to match Add To and Take From, Result Unknown story problems. Students make sense of and represent each story problem in a way that makes sense to them (MP1). Students should have access to connecting cubes or two-color counters. They may use objects or drawings to represent and solve the problems. They may use known addition or subtraction facts to solve the problems. Students write an addition or subtraction equation to match each story problem and explain how it matches. Each equation should include a box around the answer to the problem. The most important thing is for students to be able to relate the numbers in the equation to the different parts of the story (MP2).

• Groups of 2
• Give students access to 10-frames and connecting cubes or two-color counters.

• "Now you will solve the problems and write equations to match. You can solve the problems in any way that makes sense to you."
• Read problems aloud.
• 5 minutes: partner work time
• “Find another group and discuss each problem. Share the equation you wrote and how it matches the story."
• 5 minutes: small-group discussion
• Monitor for students who wrote equations that match the stories and can explain how they match.

• Invite previously identified students to share the equation for each story problem.